<br><font size=2><tt>cialug-bounces@cialug.org wrote on 02/14/2006 05:39:59
PM:<br>
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> On 2/14/06, John.Lengeling@radisys.com <John.Lengeling@radisys.com>
wrote:</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>> <br>
> Okay, I will ask a stupid question....Why not just run Solaris? It
<br>
> runs 100% without problems.</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>> <br>
> Have you *run* Solaris? An old E3500 is probably free, why not
have<br>
> some fun and let it run a real OS before it dies?</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Just curious since the last time that I ran RedHat
on a Sun the hardware support was minimal and the port was eventually abandoned.
Of course I was using older hardware like IPX, SS5. Seems like as
soon as you stray from x86, the quality of the port goes down. Are
there other Linux/Sparc ports available now? I see BSD has an UltraSparc
port, has anyone tried it?</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>johnl</tt></font>